On the Radio

Week of May 19, 2013

Art & Craft

05.19.2013

It’s Art & Craft week at TTBOOK, but we’re not gluing macaroni to cardboard. 

From the halls of London’s Victoria and Albert Museum, to MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms... what we make shapes our future.

  1. What Are You Making?

    From sauerkraut to glass beads to bowties, word is that we’re going through a “makers’ movement” here in America.

    What are you making? In San Francisco, two radio producers are collecting stories in a project called “The Making Of...” 

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  2. Craft, Reconsidered - Glenn Adamson

    Where's the line between craft, art and design? The head of research at London's Victoria and Albert Museum says, at heart, craft is about "showing your commitment to an idea."

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  3. Inside Out Art

    So-called "outsider art" has been hot for a while now. What the art crowd calls it has changed, from l'art brut to self-taught art to vernacular art.

    Whatever you call it, the work of some these artists will join the cream of the contemporary art crop at the Venice Biennale this summer.

    One of the largest collections of vernacular art is right here in Wisconsin. Producer Sara Nics talks with the woman who helped create the collection: Ruth Kohler. 

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  4. Crafting Technology

    Craft is all about handmade, right? Not any more. At one of the country's most well-respected craft schools, the pound of hammers and the hum of the potter’s wheel is harmonizing with zapping laser cutters and whirring microprocessors. 

    Haystack Mountain School of Crafts is partnering with MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms to forge new means of making.

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  5. Making Punk - Richard Hell

    In this final segment, we take a left turn to punk.

    Richard Hell co-founded the band Television in the mid-70s. He also created a look and sound that would eventually be called “punk.” 

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Laurel and Hardy

Quiet, Please

05.19.2013
(was 06.24.2012)

Hear that?  It's the soothing sound of silence.  We'll have much more, including "Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking"; one man's quest for absolute silence; and John Cage's 4'33." 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  1. Susan Cain on "Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking"

    Susan Cain talks about her book, "Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking."

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  2. George Michelsen Foy on "Zero Decibels: The Quest for Absolute Silence"

    George Michelsen Foy talks about his book, "Zero Decibels: The Quest for Absolute Silence."

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  3. Kyle Gann on "No Such Thing as Silence: John Cage's 4'33"

    Kyle Gann talks about his book, "No Such Thing as Silence: John Cage's 4'33"."

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  4. Garret Keizer on "The Unwanted Sound of Everything We Want: A Book About Noise"

    Garret Keizer talks about his book, "The Unwanted Sound of Everything We Want: A Book About Noise."

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